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July 19, 2008

AD NUMBER: 2008-14-16
MANUFACTURER: 328 Support Services GmbH
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2008-14-16
SUMMARY: We are adopting a new airworthiness directive
(AD) for the products listed above. This AD results from mandatory
continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) originated by an
aviation authority of another country to identify and correct an
unsafe condition on an aviation product.

AD NUMBER: 2008-13-01
MANUFACTURER: Fokker
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2008-13-01
SUMMARY: We are adopting a new airworthiness directive
(AD) for the products listed above. This AD results from mandatory
continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) originated by an
aviation authority of another country to identify and correct an
unsafe condition on an aviation product.

AD NUMBER: 2008-15-01
MANUFACTURER: Empresa
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2008-15-01
SUMMARY: This amendment adopts a new airworthiness
directive (AD), applicable to all Model EMB-120 series
airplanes, that requires revising the airplane flight manual to
include operational limitations for use of the autopilot,
installing two placards that advise the flight crew to check the
pitch trim before descent, and modifying the elevator trim system,
which would terminate the requirements of the AD.

AD NUMBER: 2008-14-17
MANUFACTURER: Airbus
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2008-14-17
SUMMARY: We are adopting a new airworthiness directive
(AD) for the products listed above. This AD results from mandatory
continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) originated by an
aviation authority of another country to identify and correct an
unsafe condition on an aviation product.

AD NUMBER: 2008-14-12
MANUFACTURER: Pacific Aerospace Corporation Ltd.
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2008-14-12
SUMMARY: We are adopting a new airworthiness directive
(AD) for the products listed above. This AD results from mandatory
continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) issued by an aviation
authority of another country to identify and correct an unsafe
condition on an aviation product.

Flight Attendants Say Everyone Should Be Checked

About a year ago, Congress passed a bill intended as a tune-up
to US anti-terrorism merasures. It ordered the Transportation
Security Administration to find some way to expedite airport
security screening for pilots, instead of simply having them cut in
line ahead of passengers.

Address Future Spacecraft Needs Following Shuttle
Retirement

The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from
Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met at European
Space Agency (ESA) Headquarters in Paris on Thursday, to review
their cooperation agreements on the massive orbital structure.

Seven Companies To Take Flight In September

NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program has selected seven Small
Business Innovation Research program, or SBIR, companies to
participate in reduced-gravity test flights in early September. The
companies will have the opportunity to test their newly developed
hardware on an aircraft that simulates the weightless conditions of
spaceflight. The fights will the first by NASA's Facilitated Access
to the Space Environment for Technology Development and Training
program, called FAST.

Training To Respond Faster, More Ably To Crises

About 500 Civil Air Patrol members, including a great many
cadets, are enhancing their skills at the National Emergency
Services Academy, a multidisciplinary training program held July
26-August 9 at Camp Atterbury, a 35,000-acre Indiana National Guard
facility in Edinburgh, IN.

C-17s, Hercs And Stratotankers Help Save Lives

Though the notion of transporting patients to medical treatment
by air usually evokes images of helicopters, transport aircraft
such as the C-130 Hercules, KC-135 Stratotanker and C-17
Globemaster III allow medical personnel to care for larger numbers
of patients over longer distances, at higher altitudes, with a
greater ability to care for the seriously injured.

Spitzer Telescope Makes Shining Discovery

A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way
galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's
center. Nicknamed the "Peony nebula star," the bright stellar bulb
was revealed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and other
ground-based telescopes. It blazes with the light of an estimated
3.2 million suns.

Makes Unscheduled Stop In Bermuda

We can't say we disagree with this pilot's reasoning. A First
Choice Airways 767 made an unscheduled stop on a recent flight from
London's Gatwick to Cuba July 16, to toss a disorderly passenger
off the plane.

Say Hello To Stringers Franklin Porath And Dave Slosson!

With the final days before the official start to EAA AirVenture
2008 counting down all too rapidly... and, not quickly enough...
ANN's senior staff is all-too-aware of the Herculean task ahead of
us in reporting EVERYTHING that's news at The World's Greatest
Aviation Celebration.

"It will definitely be a benefit to passengers not
having to see someone cut in line."

Source: Air Line Pilots Association chief Capt.
John Prater, who supports the TSA's testing of separate security
checkpoints for pilots over the next 60 days at
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport,
Pittsburgh International Airport and South Carolina's Columbia
Metropolitan Airport. Pilots arriving at the checkpoints will not
be screened for weapons, but will have their photo IDs checked
against photos in a database, to make sure the IDs aren't being
used by anyone but the rightful holders. The Association of Flight
Attendants is protesting the move, saying safety demands everyone
boarding an airplane be checked for weapons.